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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Only Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York (MONY) balked at paying, claiming Granberg was still alive. Although phony death claims are extremely rare-less than one-tenth of 1% of all death claims are found to be fraudulent-MONY's chief litigation counsel, Jerry Alan Marr, was suspicious...
GM is sued over its X-cars
The Supreme Court ruled unanimously against five Navy enlisted men, all of them black, who sued their officers on the U.S.S. Decatur. They claimed that because of their race they had received degrading assignments and had been unfairly disciplined. The court said the men should have sought corrective action within...
The Justices also unanimously decided that federal civilian employees must rely on the "elaborate remedial system" of the civil service for redress of alleged arbitrary and illegal actions. They ruled against NASA Engineer William Bush, who claimed that he had been demoted in retaliation for his public complaints about the...
The high court also did itself a favor. In a ruling that may make litigants think twice about wasting the justices' efforts on hopeless appeals, they implemented a 1980 rule for the first time. Former Student Elmo Tatum, in a series of unsuccessful legal maneuvers labeled "entirely without merit...